- #1 Desktop Explorer
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,696 reviews2026
Dev: Recurring Dream
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Point & Click 23.8%, Mystery 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Puzzle 7.8%
- #2 Disease -Hidden Object-
97% matchMixed61% of 55 reviews2020
Dev: OperaHouse CorporationPub: D3PUBLISHER
Windows
This is a horror adventure game where the player go back and forth in between the real world and the hallucination world. The purpose of this game is to search items and collect scattered documents while solving mysteries and finding out the truth of the abolished hospital.
Why similar: Point & Click 19.1%, Hidden Object 17.4%, Horror 16.7%, Mystery 13.9%, Adventure 11.9%
- #3 Dingir OS
96% matchVery Positive85% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
Congratulations, you've found Dingir OS — an operating system that lets you glimpse into the darkest corners of the internet. Browse forbidden websites, investigate lethal files, and immerse yourself in the world of digital legends. (We are not responsible for anything that may happen to you.)
Why similar: Point & Click 20.4%, Hidden Object 16.7%, Horror 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%
- #4 Ib
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,289 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Horror 25.3%, Multiple Endings 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Puzzle 9.7%, Exploration 7.5%
- #5 SIMULACRA
94% matchVery Positive90% of 4,678 reviews2017
Dev: Kaigan Games OÜ
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.2%, Horror 18.7%, Mystery 16.8%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%
- #6 New Folder
93% matchVery Positive88% of 60 reviews2026
Dev: Evicted Games
Windows
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Mystery 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Puzzle 13.8%, Horror 12%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
- #7 Left in the Dark: No One on Board
94% matchVery Positive83% of 784 reviews2014
Dev: Moonrise InteractivePub: Artifex Mundi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Discover what connects a lost ship’s disappearance with Devil’s Island and a local family’s unsolved murder.
Why similar: Hidden Object 28.5%, Mystery 20.4%, Point & Click 18.6%, Adventure 11%, Horror 7.9%
- #8 Winion Virus
91% matchVery Positive95% of 1,061 reviews2024
Dev: Dawntown Studio
Windows · Mac
Winion Virus is a pixel-art visual novel horror game. It features adorable and charming graphics paired with a dark fairy-tale story full of unexpected twists. As a point-and-click adventure, your task is to fix the errors occurring within the computer.
Why similar: Point & Click 24.5%, Horror 24.3%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Mystery 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
- #9 The Paradixion: Son's Room
91% matchVery Positive85% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: GomPangGames
Windows
[The Paradixion: Son's Room] is a point-and-click adventure game with a mysterious atmosphere.Solve various puzzles with a unique atmosphere and find the hidden elements in the game to gather clues about the story.
Why similar: Point & Click 20.2%, Mystery 16.9%, Hidden Object 14.6%, Horror 14.3%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #10 Home
92% matchMixed67% of 1,775 reviews2012
Dev: BancyCo
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
Why similar: Horror 21.4%, Mystery 17.7%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Point & Click 11.5%, Adventure 10.6%
- #11 Nightmare Zapping
90% matchVery Positive99% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Maldo19
Windows
A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.
Why similar: Horror 17.1%, Mystery 16.7%, Point & Click 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
- #12 Care
89% matchVery Positive95% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: The Pocket Dimension
Windows
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Why similar: Mystery 19.5%, Horror 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Visual Novel 8.8%
- #13 Midnight Syndrome
88% matchVery Positive99% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: ナツミカン
Windows
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
Why similar: Point & Click 18.6%, Horror 15.3%, Mystery 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #14 Found Horror Game 101.exe
89% matchMixed69% of 61 reviews2018
Dev: Yai Gameworks
Windows
You'll scream in pleasure... Choke with fear! Play through 101 sick, frightening and perverted games, released in an experimental episodic format Can the curious souls brave through the hidden depths of each game to reach the shocking conclusion? Maybe what's been lost was never meant to be found...
Why similar: Horror 20.5%, Mystery 19.3%, Gore 14.1%, Adventure 11.4%, Violent 10.6%
- #15 FAKEBOOK
86% matchVery Positive91% of 822 reviews2024
Dev: banjihagames
Windows · Mac
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Mystery 24.8%, Point & Click 16.7%, Horror 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%
- #16 Insight
87% matchVery Positive88% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: GravelRoadPub: PaperPixel Games
Windows
Insight is a single-player horror story game shrouded in mystery. You'll take control of different characters to solve crimes and unveil the dark secrets behind them.
Why similar: Horror 43.4%, Multiple Endings 28.5%, Dark 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, Adventure 4.1%
- #17 Devil's Hideout
86% matchVery Positive85% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: Cosmic Void
Windows · Mac · Linux
Devil's Hideout is a horror point and click adventure. Lauren learns from a mystic that her young sister is still alive, with cultists staging her death. Traveling to the hospital where her sister received care, Lauren plunges headfirst into a nightmare.
Why similar: Point & Click 27.9%, Horror 22%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Adventure 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
- #18 The Incident at Galley House
83% matchVery Positive94% of 3,745 reviews2026
Dev: William RousPub: Evil Trout Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.
Why similar: Mystery 43.1%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Horror 12.8%, Puzzle 12.2%, Adventure 9.2%
- #19 oneway.exe: Module 1.0
84% matchVery Positive84% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Disordered Media
Windows
You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay. In oneway.exe, uncover the mystery of UNTITLED.exe, its three developers, and the evolving Internet eras that once shaped their love. How does your story end? How did it ever begin?
Why similar: Mystery 27.8%, Horror 23.7%, Multiple Endings 18.9%, Puzzle 10.1%, Exploration 6.3%
- #20 Confabulation: Homestead
85% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: Authogin
Windows
Horror puzzle game with spot-the-difference elements for survival. Complete interesting puzzles throughout your home to gain access to more areas and unlock more of the story all while using your modified camera to survive the threat that is lurking.
Why similar: Mystery 19.2%, Hidden Object 16.3%, Horror 14.7%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Adventure 7.5%
- #21 last seen online
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,301 reviews2024
Dev: Sochin Studio
Windows · Mac
Look through someone else’s computer. Inspired by early “escape room” flash games.
Why similar: Horror 36.2%, Point & Click 27.5%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Puzzle 16.2%, Indie 2.3%
- #22 Project DeepWeb
84% matchVery Positive81% of 134 reviews2020
Dev: NightCat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
This is a deep web exploration simulator. Discover hundreds of websites and files around the Web to get to the Silent House and save your friend. Find out creepy stories from the Web and meet its inhabitants. It's showtime!
Why similar: Mystery 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Horror 13.6%, Puzzle 10.4%, Adventure 10.1%
- #23 Abscission
81% matchVery Positive94% of 122 reviews2023
Dev: Beyond Booleans
Windows
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
Why similar: Point & Click 31.6%, Horror 21.3%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Mystery 14.2%, Adventure 8.8%
- #24 Last Report
79% matchVery Positive89% of 2,443 reviews2025
Dev: Monopixel Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Last Report is a dark horror game where you play as a night shift park ranger. While monitoring the camera footage, you start noticing strange events. Uncover the terrifying secret of the National Park. Something moved in the window, but don’t worry it’s probably just another deer, right?
Why similar: Horror 24.8%, Point & Click 20.4%, Mystery 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 6%
- #25 BAD END
82% matchVery Positive83% of 398 reviews2015
Dev: Arai Koh Create OfficePub: YOX-Project
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.
Why similar: Mystery 21.5%, Horror 16.7%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
- #26 Decollate Decoration
78% matchVery Positive93% of 446 reviews2026
Dev: KANEKODOPub: KEMCO
Windows
This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost. The objective is to fulfill her desires by speaking to her beloved "him" causing poltergeists, visiting in dreams, or even cursing.
Why similar: Horror 21.4%, Point & Click 20.9%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Mystery 13.3%, Adventure 11.3%
- #27 The Horror Of Salazar House
80% matchVery Positive94% of 390 reviews2020
Dev: Maldo19Pub: Torture Star Video
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Will you solve the mystery of the Salazar manor or will you become another permanent inhabitant? An Italian horror inspired adventure game!
Why similar: Point & Click 20.2%, Mystery 18.2%, Horror 16.1%, Gore 9.3%, Hidden Object 8.6%
- #28 Welcome to the Game
81% matchVery Positive84% of 2,591 reviews2016
Dev: Reflect Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Welcome to the Game is a creepy horror/puzzle game that takes you into the world of the Deep Web. Explore the Deep Web with the sole purpose of trying to find a Red Room, an online service / website that allows you to see and participate in interactive torture and murder.
Why similar: Horror 48.5%, Gore 16.2%, Violent 13.1%, Puzzle 12.3%, Dark 6.5%
- #29 a pet shop after dark
79% matchVery Positive89% of 407 reviews2022
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.2%, Horror 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Mystery 9.9%, Hidden Object 9.2%
- #30 Crossroad OS
78% matchVery Positive98% of 315 reviews2023
Dev: GuyPub: Martin Games
Windows · Linux
Explore the mysterious operating system Crossʀoad OS. Adventure through its decaying programs, solve puzzles, collect items and meet strange creatures.
Why similar: Mystery 24.1%, Point & Click 16.8%, Horror 15.5%, Hidden Object 13.9%, Adventure 6.1%
- #31 The Butterfly Collector
77% matchVery Positive88% of 954 reviews2025
Dev: Wicky Yu
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 48%
investigate the evidence left by a stalker and kidnapper and track the fate of a college girl. The player advances and watches the plot by clicking to make choices for the heroine at key moments, with different choices leading to different endings.
Why similar: Horror 31%, Visual Novel 30%, Adventure 14.5%, Gore 11.7%, Violent 10.9%
- #32 Sinheritance
77% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: STIM GAMES
Windows
Sinheritance is a terrifying and mind-bending puzzle game. Explore every corner in an intensely oppressive atmosphere to piece together a chilling story. Every step must be taken with caution, for the deepest fears often stem from your own choices and your gradually crumbling sanity.
Why similar: Mystery 28.8%, Point & Click 24.6%, Multiple Endings 15%, Puzzle 8.7%, Visual Novel 8.4%
- #33 Homicipher
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,289 reviews2024
Dev: 八名木GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
Why similar: Horror 21.4%, Multiple Endings 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%
- #34 Follow the meaning
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,035 reviews2024
Dev: HiKing Mind StudioPub: Second Maze
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…
Why similar: Point & Click 23.4%, Mystery 19.2%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Hidden Object 11.3%, Adventure 10.7%
- #35 Lost Infinity
75% matchPositive83% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Void EchoPub: Valera Entertainment
Windows
Where are you going with the main character? "Lost Infinity" is a game about nothing, or maybe something, only you will decide. Grieve, think, reason.
Why similar: Horror 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Adventure 13.2%, Dark 7%
- #36 Cat in the Box
74% matchVery Positive94% of 1,562 reviews2020
Dev: Gustav
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Cat in the Box is a horror adventure game. Help the poor girl explore the mansion and escape from unknown entities that are pursuing her. Use a variety of tools and your wits to overcome any challenges you face. At times, you'll even have to wake yourself from nightmares to survive.
Why similar: Horror 38.4%, Mystery 26.8%, Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
- #37 DESOLATIUM: Prologue
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 121 reviews2021
Dev: SUPERLUMEN
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 41%
DESOLATIUM: PROLOGUE is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.
Why similar: Mystery 21.1%, Point & Click 19.6%, Horror 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #38 Bad Dream: Coma
74% matchVery Positive91% of 2,222 reviews2017
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
Why similar: Point & Click 22.8%, Horror 16.4%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Hidden Object 12.3%, Gore 9.8%
- #39 Like Clay
75% matchVery Positive87% of 124 reviews2017
Dev: free08Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Like Clay is a story driven adventure game with horror elements. Find out what happened to a friend of yours by reading messages and listening to audio files. Search for hidden doors and items, solve light puzzles and survive deadly foes and lethal traps.
Why similar: Horror 53.8%, Adventure 33.9%, Indie 12.4%
- #40 Corrosion: Cold Winter Waiting [Enhanced Edition]
76% matchMixed68% of 266 reviews2015
Dev: Viperante
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Horror adventure awaits as you step into a place nobody knew existed and hunt for clues around every dark corner and in every scribbled notebook. With a twisted past, and a terrible secret just waiting to be revealed, Cold Winter Farm will leave you questioning whether what you know, is really what you know.
Why similar: Point & Click 30.9%, Mystery 25.7%, Horror 22.7%, Adventure 16.7%, Indie 3.9%
- #41 Who's Lila?
71% matchVery Positive94% of 3,792 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Point & Click 19.2%, Horror 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%
- #42 Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,665 reviews2024
Dev: Stately Snail
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
Why similar: Mystery 26.4%, Horror 23.6%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Adventure 11.2%, Puzzle 9.9%
- #43 KRAMPEN
71% matchVery Positive91% of 443 reviews2023
Dev: GMD13
Windows
Immerse yourself in the winter forest and help a lost soul to find a piece of itself. What is awaiting you there.. or who?
Why similar: Point & Click 21%, Horror 18.8%, Multiple Endings 17.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Adventure 6.7%
- #44 Urban Myth Dissolution Center
68% matchVery Positive88% of 6,230 reviews2025
Dev: HakababunkoPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Mystery 25.1%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Horror 13.9%, Point & Click 13.7%, Adventure 8.9%
- #45 Our Secret Below
72% matchVery Positive87% of 123 reviews2020
Dev: DarkStone Digital
Windows
Abducted with only four hours to live… Learn about your captor, use your knowledge to escape, end the cycle.
Why similar: Mystery 26%, Horror 17.5%, Hidden Object 13.3%, Puzzle 9.8%, Point & Click 8.6%
- #46 STAY
73% matchMixed68% of 569 reviews2018
Dev: Appnormals Team
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Why similar: Horror 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Adventure 10.9%
- #47 Cursed
70% matchVery Positive91% of 205 reviews2022
Dev: Disaster Squad Productions
Windows
A horrific retro point and click adventure with combat
Why similar: Point & Click 27%, Horror 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Adventure 10.4%, Mystery 9%
- #48 √Letter - Root Letter -
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 579 reviews2017
Dev: DRAGAMI GAMES, LTD.
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
When a letter is delivered 15 years late - you discover an old pen-friend was involved in a murder, before she disappeared. Travelling to her hometown, you must investigate the murder, using her past letters as clues to uncover the disturbing truth.
Why similar: Mystery 16.4%, Point & Click 14.4%, Hidden Object 12%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Horror 11.4%
- #49 Luna's Room
67% matchVery Positive100% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: DonutDroidPub: Save Games Studio
Windows
An unfamiliar room. Vague memories. Explore Luna's room through the objects inside it in this intimate narrative experience about loss, told as a classic-style graphic adventure.
Why similar: Point & Click 33.6%, Mystery 26.2%, Horror 15%, Adventure 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
- #50 Outlying Islands
67% matchVery Positive95% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: 九指画尸Pub: 2P Games
Windows
A story about discovering anomalies, finding strange energy sources, and the intertwining of peculiar spaces. Get ready to uncover hidden stories, delve into a horrifying narrative and unveil the most fundamental truth!
Why similar: Point & Click 17.3%, Mystery 15.9%, Horror 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #51 Charon's Staircase
71% matchMixed61% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: Indigo Studios - Interactive StoriesPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
In this first-person horror mystery game, you set out to bury the horrible past of a tyrannical government. Retrieve and destroy the documents that unravel the secrets that lie beneath Oack Grove. Will you discover the terrifying truth and find your way out?
Why similar: Mystery 24.6%, Horror 17%, Adventure 12.9%, Puzzle 10.6%, Exploration 8.6%
- #52 MY ADAPTATION IN(TO) HUMAN
69% matchMixed66% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: Point & Click 27.4%, Horror 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Adventure 10.5%
- #53 Black Mirror II
70% matchVery Positive90% of 720 reviews2014
Dev: Cranberry ProductionPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Enter a dark, captivating world as the massive evil of Black Mirror Castle is reincarnated with over 100 atmospheric locations to explore and 40 different characters to interact with. Will Darren's search lead him to redemption or the hell of insanity?
Why similar: Point & Click 42.3%, Adventure 21.5%, Horror 17.8%, Mystery 14.4%, Puzzle 4.1%
- #54 The Third Shift
66% matchVery Positive98% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: Teebowah Games
Windows
In this Game Boy styled horror game, uncover the mystery of the Roanoke Museum of History and Wonder. Get lost in its maze-like exhibits, solve peculiar puzzles, and survive being hunted by grotesque creatures from the controversial Human Body Exhibit. Can you leave the museum alive?
Why similar: Horror 20.2%, Point & Click 19.2%, Mystery 18.7%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Adventure 10.2%
- #55 Deep Under
68% matchVery Positive95% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: WildOmul
Windows
DEEP UNDER is a grim visual novel about how an ordinary camping trip with friends can turn into a real nightmare.
Why similar: Horror 16.2%, Mystery 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
- #56 Red Bow
68% matchVery Positive85% of 350 reviews2020
Dev: Stranga GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
If you were given another chance, would you take it? Or leave it in the hands of a little girl? Play as Roh, a young girl stuck in a bizarre nightmare of dark and eerie creatures.
Why similar: Horror 22.1%, Gore 14.9%, Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Violent 9.3%
- #57 OVERWRITE
67% matchVery Positive98% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: ツノウサギの家
Windows
Overwrite each other. A story-driven exploration adventure shaped by tragedy. ― I woke up in a research facility. And... someone was already inside me. (I initiated the experiment at this research facility.) (My first—and final—experiment for my sake. I staked everything on it.)
Why similar: Adventure 23.7%, Horror 23.1%, Multiple Endings 19.2%, Gore 10.6%, Violent 9.8%
- #58 The Shell Part I: Inferno
65% matchVery Positive91% of 1,461 reviews2023
Dev: Innocent GreyPub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 115.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
Why similar: Mystery 30.9%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Multiple Endings 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Gore 9.5%
- #59 Dead Dreams
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 67 reviews2020
Dev: Aiaz Marx
Windows
"DEAD DREAMS" is a 2D psychological horror game focused on puzzle-solving and atmosphere with a complex non-linear story in which every element has a meaning...
Why similar: Mystery 22.7%, Horror 20%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Gore 11.1%, Puzzle 8.5%
- #60 Fragile
69% matchMixed65% of 430 reviews2020
Dev: Beer Night Studio
Windows
Get pulled into the nightmares of reality as you play as an abducted girl from the ger district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Uncover a secret organization that deals in human trafficking and other horrendous activities. Try to escape from the scariest place on earth!
Why similar: Gore 23.7%, Horror 19.6%, Violent 18.5%, Adventure 13.5%, Puzzle 8%